Humorous fiction

'My comfort read.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series.

The Oh My God Delusion is Ross O'Carrolly Kelly at his finest - and the publc agrees.

ELEVEN ROMANTIC STORIES TO WARM YOUR HEART, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERS ME BEFORE YOU AND STILL ME From the author of THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER, now a major motion picture_________ In Paris for One, Nell is deserted by her boyfriend minutes before setting off on what was supposed to be a fantastic romantic weekend away to Paris.

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***Discover the entertaining, uplifting and intriguing tale of finding true happiness in unexpected places from the No.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2024*Every relationship has one beginning.

To Las Vegas .

'I can honestly say I can't think of another book that ever made me laugh this much.

Pratchett's perceptive and laugh-out-loud Discworld series is a literary phenomenon.

Enter the world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, where you can trust no one and never be sure what's lurking in the trees.

A darkly humorous horror that will get under your skin and have you questioning everyone you know .

*A BOOK OF THE MONTH RADIO 2 STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON PICK**AN OBSERVER DEBUT OF 2022**AS FEATURED ON FRONT ROW*When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them .

When Anna is kissed by a mysterious stranger at a NYE masquerade ball, a dance of seduction begins.

What if your lover left you for nothing?

'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said.

After an undistinguished career at Oxford, Stanley Windrush wanders from one escapade to another in the world of paid employment.

They've stopped holding late-night sessions in Parliament.

Alan Hackney's first novel, Private's Progress tells the story of the hapless Stanley Windrush.

Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young man named Novel (his brother's name is James; his sister's is Joyce), a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography.

';Why are you so unhappy?

THE LOVE STORY OF THE YEAR'A triumph, a real gift of a novel'Sunday Times'Pure pleasure in a paperback'Guardian'It makes you want to tell someone - anyone - that you love or care about them'IndependentSometimes you need to get lost to find your way.

FALL IN LOVE WITH FOUR STRANGERS WHO MIGHT JUST FIND LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WHERE THEY LEAST EXPECT IT.

Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice shines through in this sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance!

This Pygmalion tale of a struggling novelist turned bond trader brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of mid-2000s New York City.

Can the spirit of Christmas reignite an old flame?

The brand new novel from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author, Maddie Please!

The BRAND NEW feel-good read from TOP TEN bestselling author Celia AndersonA warm, laugh-out-loud story of fun and friendship for women of a certain age.

"e;Joni Murphy's inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now.

The X-Files star and bestselling author's "e;zany, madcap first novel .

Nicht erst seit dem Überfall der Hamas auf Israel sind antisemitische Hetze und Vorurteile sowie antisemitisch grundierte Positionen in Deutschland wieder salonfähig geworden.

Herbert Ami, ein etwa 50-jähriger Lehrer für Deutsch und Geschichte an einem Progymnasium, schlägt sich durch ein Schuljahr voller Absurditäten, pädagogischer Grenzerfahrungen und überraschender Lichtblicke.

First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist.

Longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize'tender, vicious, hilarious, exhilarating, devastating and HOPEFUL'Daisy Buchanan'[a] knockout debut'New York Times'a riotous rollercoaster of hilarity, tenderness and beautiful craziness that kept me hooked from the start'Daily MailFrances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar.

'Deeply satisfying and nuanced .

Pre-order the new sharp, hilarious Justin Myers novel, LEADING MAN, now!

The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack.

Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place.

Angel is dark and plain, introverted and submissive, a spontaneous composer of childish verses, wholly consumed by the wild, seductive spell of her cousin Lara - a beautiful, irresponsible creature who expresses herself in free-form dance.

Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over.

Book 13 in the delightful 44 Scotland Street series, by worldwide bestselling author Alexander McCall SmithIt is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitu s of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting.

'While My Italian Bulldozer certainly advocates a kind, considerate, some might even say old-fashioned approach to resolving affairs of the heart, it also succeeds in subtly, almost imperceptibly ripping up the traditional rules of the romantic comedy and creating something refreshingly original' ScotsmanWhen writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life.

As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine.

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.

'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today.

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means.

For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better.

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist's floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband's career fails to live up to her expectations; a 'Cinderella' records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody's life except her own; an artist and aging 'It girl' - who fears that her time for finding a man has run out - travels to London in search of the kind of love and devotion she can't find in Manhattan.